Church volunteers have played a big role in the wake of Hurricane Helene. But for some survivors, the accompanying proselytizing feels unwanted.

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet's land drier and saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access ...

The crowd sways like starlings in murmuration as we wait for the show to start. The relaxed vibe belies the pandamonium about ...

The proposed 88-mile rail line would link the oil fields of the remote Uinta Basin region of eastern Utah to national rail lines so that up to 350,000 barrels of waxy crude oil could be transported to ...

In January, Joe Biden paused the Department of Energy’s approvals of fossil gas exports to big consumers in Asia and Europe in order to conduct the review, in a move welcomed by climate ...

In recent years, there has been a dramatic transformation in the economic philosophy guiding the world’s rich countries. After the supply chain shocks brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ...

It was barely a choice. In 1855, a time when the ink of border lines on United States maps had scarcely dried, Yakama Chief Kamiakin was told to sign over the land of 14 tribal nations and bands ...

Donald Trump owes a lot to his adopted home state of Florida. The state, which is the third-largest in the Electoral College, has delivered him increasingly large majorities in each of the past ...

At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up from the depths of the planet. Some of that sludge gets sent to a refinery and processed into plastic, then it becomes the phone in your hand, the ...